Marching, right by his door
Another Saturday… the president is off to play golf. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people are outside “his house” in Washington. Not to see him. Rather, to tell anyone who is paying attention that the gun madness has to end in the US. The marchers, in hundreds of other locations across the country, were in chorus. Enough is enough. But as I said, the prez is playing golf today.
This goes beyond sadness. Social media carried the message: “Guns and politicians are really cheap to buy”. Any system which allows donating to the campaigns of politicians will eventually hit a wall (even if it’s an imaginary, yet to be built wall along a national boundary).
I have no grounding in political science, but when I heard that one of my local politicians enounced the viewpoint that getting rid of parties in our legislature would be a good thing, I cheered (quietly). Governance by consensus can work.
But back to the marches. Finally, the public at large is starting to draw back from the “thoughts and prayers” litany from too many politicians when preventable tragedies occur. Do something real, for a change. Stop allowing one industry, a lobby, to run the whole bloody show.
I’m looking forward to a reaction on the part of the politicians. So far, the one “news network” that refuses to report news has avoided any mention of how millions spent their Saturday. So far, the Twitterverse has not heard from he who golfs while the country is under fire. So far…
